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Browse the major concepts that shape our lives, like love, courage, and happiness.
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
“A small village could sometimes create a new kind of world.
“Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
“A good book doesn't just entertain; it reads you, revealing truths you already held.
“A poem breathes, a quiet force, transforming air into resonant presence, pure being.
“I was determined that I would write about the people around me.
“Imagination is nothing but the memory of our sensations and experiences.
“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
“One must be in love to write.
“Every life is a story, and every story is a life.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
“Only passions, and great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
“Africanfuturism is a subcategory of science fiction rooted in African culture, history, mythology.
“I am a poet. My sacred mission is to dream, to sing, to elevate souls.
“Literature is a way of protesting against the world as it is.
“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
“Writing is the place where language falls ill.
“African music is the root of all modern music.
“Show up to your desk every single day and do the work.